Show 11 1 ni I 1 THIE THE il I 1 BOSTON n girla r 9 sl 4 T rr y f S WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE I 1 S E inan IBM 1932 b tile the Mal mahmillan millan co HEN she said she would like ilie W WHEN to accept a position with our piper paper it was mat till all er between us ua after that we knew that she was at least highly lilg lily improbable if not entirely impossible cut but then we might have expected as much from A n girl u who ho railed called herself Mily maybelle belle there Is however li mever this much to be said in ID may alny belles faor she was persistent she did not let go till it thundered I 1 we could have stood it well enough ellough tf if she had limited tier her campaign for a joh job tin n the paper to an occasional call at the office but bill slie site had a fiendish instinct which told tier who were the lie friends we liked most to oblige the banker for instance who carried our overdrafts tile the lending leading aher advertiser tiser the chairman of the printing committee of the town council and site she found ways to malic make them ask if we do r something for mis mi s bolton six aid teach school indeed she lind had r pince in the bie academy but she ia till school teaching she had always felt that if she could once get a sturt slie site could make a name for heisel eisel li she had written something that she called A critique on hamlet h the she submitted to us and was deeply pained when we told tier her that we didi dlan t care for editorial matter that what out our paper needed was the names of the people in our own countley town tonn and county printed RS as ninny many tinier a lay day or a week or a month as they could be put into type we well tried to tell tier her that more important tant to us than the influence of the celtic element on oil our national life mid literature was the fact that john jones of lebo that Is to say red john as distinguished from black jolin or jones the tinner or jones of the possum holler settlement was i as in town with a load of if hay other papers wn ia explained carefully while tile slie site looked as sympathetic and intelligent as a u colie ceilie othor papers nil might ait oit he be interested la in tile radioactivity radio activity of uranium X they might care to print articles on the lie psychological phenomena of to which she snapped eager ameenie asi cement nt with her eyes others lothers with entire propriety might be interested in inorganic evolution an and she hopped yes yes with intensity but in our ville ittle local paper me w e cared only for the person who could tell our readers with the most delicacy and nd precision pre cison how many spoons mrs ton had to borrow for tier her party who had bad the largest number of finger bowls in town what ilm alm conk tin paid for the br broilers slie site served ut tit her party lust february and tile name of the country woman who raised them and why rhy it was that all the women aomen failed to make jennies recipe for sunshine cake work mork when they tried it such are the things that hi merest terest our people and lie ile slie she or it bilici a ho can turn in two or three co columns luning a day of items setting forth these things in a good natured way so that the persons menti mentioned ored will only grin and wonder who told it Is good for ten tell dollars of our money every saturday night Ilay maybelle belle thought it was nich such interesting work and her eyes in tears of happiness at the thought of such joy if she could only ahme it chancel it would be just lovely dimply grand and she knew slip rite ro could ill do it 1 something in tier her innermost toul soul thrilled with a that made tier lier quiver with anticipation whereupon she went ment out and caknip back in three days with the sheets of foolscap on which she lind had written nu fill article beginning when memory draws aside the curtains of her migle chamber revealing the pictures tation paints and we see bee through the lie windows of our the sweet milf it of yester yesterday dily lying outside and beyond when stern ambition with relentless lent less I 1 land and turns us its amay front from nil all this to rifle ride in tile somber chariot of if duty then it is t abit ha t tnt pleasure beckons us hack back to sit lil li Me morys fire and alp our ten tea with meditation wl WI tit at 11 was nil all about no one ever found out but young prince at the local desk dlesk who rend read it clear through sald s ald that times lie he thought that it ins ns it of a fire and at other oilier times it I 1 like ilke a dress goods catalogue it woul I hove have made four coluni columns tm As he put tile the roll back in the drawer dramer tile yount prince rose roe and paced grandly out at the front door lie stopped and ald mild nener make anything out of her sties a landholder hand holder A girl begin to get oms oitis on in tier her hands I 1 notice she hns has mush on the bra tit but maibelle returned and we e went all ail over the bame ground agten we explained that alint we ne wn bated ted was short items two or three lines ine eadi little references to home borne doings something telling alio fas compo compone nv who mho Is rick who Is putting shingles on ohp barn or an L on oil the li boore oise ali and slie she said gald oil oh yes so that it seemed as though she would bialk or or put her front feet on the table one e felt like taking inking tier her jaws in ills his hand handi i and putting pulling her ears the next time she came in site she sald that if we would just try her ghe lier lei something Bom ething to do she aris bure aire ahl could show us ug liow how well slie site could do it on a venture end and partly t to sd gel rid hit of tier her we e sent her to the dis disteli tilI on oil antion 0 of the epworth leaggo to rit rile e up the opening meeting ne ang about noon u of f the next net lay day she he brought tit in three se raona and said that slie she get gel the list of officers officer nor the names name of the choir because they were all people who ched here and everyone knew them then we explained in short simple sentences that the sermons were of no value and that the names were what vie ne desired desire slie she dropped tier her eyes eves and said meekly ohl oh and told us how sorry she was also site she said that hint if it for a meeting of tile lie T T T gli gails Is that afternoon she lie would go haik back find and get tile the when khe went out the young prince etting silling ly by tile the window with his pencil behind his ear and his feet on tile the table said 1 I bet site she can make the I 1 grandest full fudge c and such lovely angel food fond put in miss bliss larrabee Larrab pe who to was busy writing up the epworth league co contention mention miss bliss bollons Bol tons name was always among the alie lists we printed of the guests at the entre card club the imperial dancing dun club the giddy young things club the art club and and Sha shakespeare lespeare club but hen she came to the office she was full of anxiety at the of society she said that she longed for intellectual tu 11 companionship companioni hip that she felt sometimes its as if she must fly to a place where she could find a soul that would feel in unison with the infinite that thrilled in tier her being par be it from lor to wish to coin the pulsations of her soul but pupa papa and maroma mamma did need tier bior help so she accented papa and mamma on oil the last syllable and leaned forward and looked upward like a madonna but writing locals someway appeal to tier her she wondered it if we could use a fal story and then she went on oh I 1 have some of the B tast things in my head I 1 know I 1 could write them they just till tingle ae through my iny blood blond like wine I 1 know I 1 could write rite thern them such su sublime lilline things but 1 when I hen I 1 sit down to put them on paper something always comes up that prevents my illy going on with them there tire tie dozens Ni whirling hirling through my brain ile ing to be written there Is one tile lie earl who has imprisoned the boung princess in it a dungeon and tier her lover a knight of the cross comes ment that May lilay helle belle hnz wed used rive five hundred yards of baby ribbon pink and blue and white and yellow ellow la her trousseau and that slie site was bestowing the same passionate fervor on tier her he hem ht itching and tucking that lint she atad wasted on literature that slip she 1 was I helping papa and mamma by shouldering the biggert wedding on since the Tomlin tomlinsons sons went into bankruptcy after their lietto cere ceremonial montal miss bliss larrabee I said that bapa Bol bollons tons thery livery stable was burning up sit si fast that she wanted anted to call out tile lire fire department part parti ment nent and that Bla blandinia ninia hollia made tier her think of the batem madleine test testimonials inions A 1 ne printed froni froin poor tired fired women the day of tile the wedding the blow came A very starched up little hoy boy with fernn irry juice frescoed tres around lils ills mouth brought in a n note from billy belle and a tightly rolled manuscript tied with lichy babiy blue ribbon in tile note site flie bald that she thought thou glit it bould lie ile so romantic to write up tier lier own ved bedding ding recalling the dear deal dead days dayi nhen hen site she anas as a neophyte in letters we handed the alie manuscript to miss bliss larrabee from whom as she read came snorts drawing room hull music room heavens to betsy te lie cullar style of beauty oil joy I 1 looked like a wood nymph in the alie mot mom n that saturate youl you the apollo like beauty of the fionin bliss larrabee Larra bce groaned as slie she rose and putting her raincoat on the floor by her chair she excia exclaimed lined do you pe people Ie know what I 1 ani am going to do CIO I 1 have got to lie right down lirra here and have a fit I 1 hog 1101 III aa IVI N e pel 61 I 1 I 1 0 12 rc dd sitting by the window with his pencil behind hit HIS ear and his HI feet on the h table said 1 I bet she can make the Gr grandoit Gran andert deit budgell Fud gel gell home from a crusade and Is put in the cell next to her A bird that eliat she lias has been feeding through her prison winlow window tales takes a 0 lock of her golden hair to tile the window where her lover Is looking out across the beautiful world not knowing that the tot too has fallen into tile the earls clutches and oil yes here Is another about cornella cornelia who ho aled in a boated tower and all the glukes and lords and kings in III the land lind hild laid suit to tier her hand and site she liml find none who iho came up tip to her highest kleal ideal so slie she set them a task aind oli oil it a lot more about what they fill I 1 haunt thought that out but iny ily aie lie marbled man led the red duke iti alio tin spurned her task find and look 1001 tier her by night with ills retainers faoul the tower toner saying tier her love it as its his ilola grail crall an and to get tier her win will tile of his pilgrimage oil oh its ilant 91 gland flud no xii e dont use serials and when we e do we buy them in stereotyped plates by tile pound tills this made 3 droop ith another oil it the grain of the bevins so coarse when one bools at it loschy los cly we did not see miss rolton dolton at the race orice for A long time after after tile the duke h k e abducted the inda in the 1 I t I 1 ginice biange hut but we e received A poem s signed 11 it to pan dan cupid a and tit on my illy of aire fire also there little nn an anonymous coin ilion in fail lillar fill fat vertical handwriting to the effect that thai some people in tills ahn town think that if a young voting II 11 imla alnis its it a gentle ninn friend cull call on nn her more than twice a week it Is their to assume a court courtship 8 I 1 I 1 P they then should know that there air are souls ills 0 on tills this earth tendrils reach ant into tile HIP infinite delond the gnem materiality of clila mundane sphere to a destiny heend till llie stars at the bott bottom bottrill of f tile ra page e were the words ilease mi I 1 A I 1 sh and oblige lillge ii a the next net that we ne heard of hoi 1101 ton was hint slie she wai wn running pink and little lilue heliy ribbon through her alte things tl ings and win expecting a gllnn shower from lie HIP T T 17 T girls giris n c r f from the hie you young ng things b IJ ngot it ahmer front froin the entre nims blits awl a kitchen ashim hl harr rr from n the Im Imperi nl till miss Larin inabet In abec ble hie ei lilor began to hate miss ton ith the ate ili te hor o aate a whirl nil sock society ty editors turn on till nil bridis miss Luri abee was mas authority v for the blite |